by Richard Jolly @https://twitter.com/@RichJolly Published 6 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? There were 2,320 words in it, and one that was missing. When Mesut Ozil announced his international retirement, his statement was a lengthy and eloquent explanation of his decision to pose for a photograph with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It illustrated the issues around multiculturalism faced by those with dual heritage, and was an attack on racists (some, he felt, in senior roles in the German FA) who sought to conflate his ethnic roots with failure in the World Cup by scapegoating him. There was no mention of Arsenal. Understandably, too. It would have been...
Full Story »